Moksha

@Breakingthewall Psychedelics can help you see through the window, but that is the relatively easy part. Integrating what you have seen, and keeping the window open, is the flow state. Otherwise you are perpetually bound to the method that is supposed to set you free. No matter what is realized on psychedelics or through any other practice, it won't shortcut the detachment from the self. Lucid dreaming requires surrender of the absolute within the mind to the absolute beyond the mind. The mask has to not only fall to the floor, but be kicked off the stage. For me, it is suffering and the letting go of suffering that allows that grace. It only takes the tiniest particle of truth to set you free, but it must be absolute.

Awareness amplifies. Focusing on your fears intensifies them, while directly realizing the absolute dissolves the appearance of everything else. You have seen through the window to yourself, now you just need to learn how to keep it open. When it has suffered enough, the dream self submits and becomes the portal to the absolute.

Regardless of the reason for the disorder, self-realization helps to dissolve it. After enough suffering, eventually the mind surrenders. It sees its limitations, and lets the absolute in. Sincere trust turns into love, which integrates everything. You don't have to master meditation to begin healing. Even 10 seconds of unconditional silence will plant the seed for miracles. Just be patient and let it grow.

It's rare, but even awakening therapists can provide space for your own awakening. The purest listen in silence, and ask an occasional probing question, which encourages you to realize. They are your companion and friend on the journey into the absolute. Eventually you see that they are you. Reminds me of when my son was little and we played Oblivion together. He was scared of going into the crypts, and always asked me to sit there next to him when he first entered the gate to face the skeletons. Now he's mature enough to battle on his own, but I'm still there with him.

Jesus hinted that there was deeper meaning beyond his words. He fed them milk, because they weren't ready yet for meat. Even the whisper of truth was judged as blasphemy by the pharisees and sadducees. Only the poor in spirit who realized themselves as such were willing to listen. The Mosaic law was given to humanity in its infancy. Their god was seen as jealous and vengeful. Jesus taught them love and they killed him for it. Parables are deeper than teachings because they symbolize truth, without entangling people in beliefs. They teach at the level of the listener. The immature mind only enjoys the story of a wise man building his house on the rock, while the clear mind sees itself in the meaning beyond the words.

The mind incessantly asks questions, and the answer is always silence.

@Yimpa Enjoy the deep dive ?

It's like sitting at the back of a massive theater, surrounded by silent presence, watching a movie that is flooded with light.

Why not find a qualified therapist who can also provide guidance with your meditation practice? I've noticed that deepening phases are often accompanied by anxiety, which gradually settles as the mind adjusts to more docile states. It's like scuba diving for the soul. You need to take your time, rather than helter-skeltering into the murky depths. Patience, diligence, and unconditional love toward the self will eventually get you here.

Just because god loves you doesn't mean it is going to shape the cosmos to suit you. God loves you so much that it will shape you to suit the cosmos.

Conceptual analysis tends to reinforce apparent boundaries, while Self-realization dissolves them. Instead of losing yourself within the labyrinth of the mind, live the dream lucidly. The Self is overflowing with phenomenal wonders, despite the disappearing boundaries.

Now that is direct knowledge

Demons vary according to the person's samskaras (blockages). You may not fear snakes, for example, but probably safe to say that death is a common samskara. Especially ego death.

@Breakingthewall Hell is a preference hierarchy: 1) Archdemon 2) Demon 3) Devil 4) Imp There's nothing wrong with dissolving a few imps first before moving on to devils and demons. Eventually though, you have to face the archdemon of death, and love the smug off its face.

It is the simplest and the rarest realization. Don't let the mind deceive you into believing that dissolving demons is only possible in extreme states. Take any desire or fear that you have, it doesn't matter. You already have the power to let it flow through you. What you lack is motivation. For example, I hate snakes. They have always freaked me out. I could convince myself that willingly holding a snake is inconceivable. It is a lie. What if the life of my daughter depends on it? Amazing how instantly the will arises to meet the moment.

It's easy to mistake good fortune for flow. When the energy of current events aligns with your desires, life is easy and feels free. It's only when the energy shifts, and opposes your desires, that life becomes difficult and feels like bondage. Now is the window for realizing the absolute within, by allowing all energies that you encounter to flow through you without resistance. Until you surrender, the winds of life will continue to assault you, and make you suffer. Life will be entirely conditional, depending on which direction the winds blow. Freedom is living in the flow state, regardless of what energies you encounter. It is the unconditional nexus of being in the world, but not of the world.

Heaven and hell are dualities of the absolute within the dream. Direct realization of itself is heaven, which dissolves boundaries and is unconditional love. Misidentification of itself is hell, which imagines boundaries and is suffering caused by imposing conditions on the cosmos. Beyond the cosmos there is no heaven or hell, only the silent mystery of absolute reality.

@Breakingthewall The absolute chooses everything, even the most horrific events. How could it be otherwise, in the realm of unlimited imagination. Phenomenal beauty cannot be experienced unless phenomenal terror is also allowed. Dualities are inevitable within the dream. The secret of the dream is that when realizing itself, the absolute allows all experiences to flow through it without resistance. In the flow state, there is no judgment of energetic expressions as desirable or undesirable, simply the unconditional submission to them all. This is the absolute realizing the absolute. It is love within and beyond the dream.

Given that you spent most of your growing up life with him, I don't doubt that your grandpa knew you well, probably better than you know yourself. Don't assume that he didn't see past the suffering you were in, to the grandson that he knew and loved. He may not have understood why you were suffering, but he loved you all the same, and knew that you loved him regardless of how you acted. Take this as a window to yourself. What does blaming yourself accomplish? Would your grandfather want you to be miserable about it, or would he want you to learn from it and celebrate your life? I'm very familiar with self-judgment. It teaches you nothing, and takes everything. See it for the lie that it is, and let it go.

Thank you Leo, for creating a space for entirely exotic creatures to discover ourselves. ?

Each person exists within its unique cosmos. It senses, perceives, interprets, and creates its own relative reality, which is entirely different from the reality of any other person. To realize the sameness of the absolute requires withdrawing from the energies of relative reality, and focusing awareness on the essence. It dissolves all apparent boundaries. The third eye is just an analogy, but it resonates. It is direct awareness of the absolute within and beyond this and other forms, entirely free from the delusions and distractions of maya.

The deeper you sink into direct realization, the easier it is to recognize immature insights. Instead of seeing them as false, appreciate them as downward spiraling stairs into the absolute. Had you tried to jump the stairs to an entirely lower level, you might have cracked your skull in the process.

I agree, the power of a guru is its transparency to the light of the absolute which shines through it. People are naturally drawn to this energy, although they usually don't realize why. It resonates with the absolute within them. I don't know if one of my preceding forms was a mystic, but am convinced that once upon a time I was a tree

Form and formless are also dualities. The absolute is in them, but is also beyond them. But beyond this formless state there is another, unmanifested reality, which is eternal and is not dissolved when the cosmos is destroyed.

@AndylizedAAY Realize that the "force" blocking you is the absolute within. Rather than getting angry at yourself (i.e., the absolute) for being blocked, contemplate why you appear to be blocking yourself. Are you actually being blocked, and if so is it possible that a different path will serve you better? Maybe the reason for the block is to teach you how to transcend being blocked. Regardless, resisting the block will only further entrap you. The answer to every phenomenal event is never resistance, but submission. This doesn't mean being a doormat, or that responses (as opposed to reactions) aren't appropriate. All it means is accepting the reality of what is happening right now, and allowing its energy to flow through you and refine you, instead of fighting against it. There is so much unnecessary suffering from resistance, which only further increases suffering. It is easier to do this after you have awakened, since you are able to stabilize awareness within the absolute, rather than being completely abducted by events. Even before awakening though, you can begin practicing this. Do it with small things, like being stuck behind a slow moving car on the freeway. When you successfully allow the energy to pass through you, it will be easier with more energetic events. Remember that Jesus taught the Kingdom of Heaven is within. Reaching god is not an external event, but a direct internal realization.